workshops

Are you shaping the tools or techniques that help other people shape their world?

There is no job description for what you do. You mix dedication to social change, confidence with people and organisations, and technical knowledge or skills. You are part of a growing number of committed people using innovation and ICT to help others work on social and political issues.

PRADSA is a project funded to provide a series of workshops around the UK to share best practice amongst people with your hybrid interests and skills. In particular, this offers the opportunity:

We invite you to present an idea or case study at this PRaDSA workshop on "Designing for the 21st Century: Using Web 2.0 Technologies and (Social Networking Tools) for Social Action" to be held in London in March.

Marc Ostens talk from the workshops

3rd PRaDSA workshop: Technology and Social Action Research Summit – Loughborough, 29th and 30th November

We invite you to join the seven researchers accountable for the PRaDSA project to thrash out some of the underpinning philosophies of this work and plan evaluation of the activities. It is nearly our half-way mark in late November and time to take stock. In the process, we will be discussing the finer points of what social action means and what we can do with action research methods to understand it better and promote its growth. It's going to be a no-holds-barred discussion of what we are doing and why, to shape our practice and research questions - if this interests you and you want to plunge in, please let us know. To register interest, send a note to Kutoma Wakunuma at K.J.Wakunuma@shu.ac.uk as soon as possible.

From a discussion with Alan Dawson, Clodagh Miskelly & Steve Thompson.

Could be called the "Flying by the seat of ones pants" approach to decision making.

As with all approaches to decision making one would gather all the facts, options, problems etc and then form a decision. For some people over time it proves more workable to defer the decision until the last possible moment so that some of the possible decisions naturally fall away as being impractical and the decision almost makes itself by possibly ending up being the only one left standing.

Putting Tools into Action: the Call for the Second PRADSA workshop - 3rd//4th Sept, Bristol